Upcoming C-CIDE Workshops on Selecting and Serving the Next Gen of Scientists and Engineers
The California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education (C-CIDE) is holding a series of workshops with the aim of improving how doctoral programs select and serve the next generation of scientists and engineers. C-CIDE is a network of faculty and administrators across UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, UC-Irvine, UC-Santa Barbara, and the University of Southern California. It is dedicated to creating a sustainable system faculty-to-faculty professional development, in order to accelerate the diffusion of inclusive practices.
The three upcoming workshops, like recent ones at UC Irvine and UC Davis, introduce current research about equity and diversity in graduate education, especially in STEM, as well as practical strategies for improving admissions and recruitment processes. Attendees will learn how common admissions mindsets and practices inhibit access for underrepresented groups, and will leave with concrete strategies to improve diversity & equity through the admissions process.
The current workshop schedule:
- Oct 29 / University of Southern California
- Oct 30 / University of California, Santa Barbara
- Nov 12 / University of California, Berkeley
Along with these workshops, C-CIDE is co-sponsoring a two day facilitation training Oct 25-27 in Orlando, FL for 19 faculty and administrators to lead workshops to design and implement systems of holistic review on their own campuses.
The workshops and facilitation training will be facilitated by Dr. Julie Posselt, University of Southern California and Dr. Casey Miller, Rochester Institute of Technology, who are the leading scholars of graduate admissions and are the PI’s of both C-CIDE and the Inclusive Graduate Education Network. A Pullias Center faculty member, Posselt is an educational sociologist, and author of Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping. Miller is an experimental physicist and PI of an NSF-funded project to develop holistic admissions tools in STEM Ph.D. programs.
Research and evaluation activities of the project will advance knowledge about how participation in faculty development activities may be associated with changes in admissions practices and outcomes, about barriers and resources for change in graduate education, and will develop new models of holistic review suitable for departments that do not use a cohort-based selection system.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Grant No. 1807047. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.